Jeffrey Bland, PhD, introduces his Facebook page and 30-year career in functional medicine. He discusses biochemical individuality, nutrigenomics, and systems biology, and notes he's traveled 4 million miles over 25 years studying chronic disease globally.
Well, hi, thanks so much for checking into my Facebook page. This is kind of a whole new technology. It's a whole new world. It's pretty exciting actually, isn't it, to be able to interact around the world with colleagues and friends and people that all share kind of some commonality. In my case, this has been a 30 year journey down the functional medicine trail. And the whole concept of biochemical individuality and nutrigenomics and how that applies to managing and preventing chronic illness and working with an incredible group of co collaborators in our Functional Medicine Clinical Research center and our Metaproteomics and Nutrigenomics Research center, and really having kind of a global opportunity to see what's going on in my 4 million miles of travel over the last 25 years. Yeah, that's. I know it seems excessive, doesn't it? 4 million miles of travel. But I think that's given me a kind of a cultural diversity and a sense of the landscape as to what's going on now in the area of healthcare and biosciences and the new medicine and the whole construct of how systems biology is emerging as a theme rather than kind of univariate, looking at one thing at a time, diseases independent one from the other, and now looking at physiological distortions that we call metabolic disturbances and how that relates to the rising tide of chronic disease and what we can do about it using a different modality, different interventions that deal with these multifactorial concepts that ultimately become what we call chronic disease. So thanks so much for being a member of our community and look forward to sharing with you and getting your feedback.
